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My Family: A Window into the Secrets, Successes, and Sins of Early New Orleans and Beyond
$17.99 Add to cartMy Family: A Window into the Secrets, Successes, and Sins of Early New Orleans and Beyond is a collection of complex life stories that interweave and meander through the ever-changing world of eightee
- Author: Prather, Michelle Freret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1737592681
- Language: English
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Walking Man: The Life and Times of a 19th Century Superstar Who Defied the Limits of Human Endurance
$18.49 Add to cartJames Kennovan was a rebellious youth who went to sea as a teenager and later walked the rugged streets of the Bowery as a New York City cop. Then, in 1849, he answered the siren’s call and sailed to
- Author: Cottrell, Steve F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: July 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1088194206
- Language: English
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Guardians of Angels: A History of the Los Angeles Police Department Anniversary Edition
$29.95 Add to cartFor 150 years, LAPD officers have pinned on a badge, holstered a gun and traveled the corridors of history, leaving behind the rich traditions that are today’s LAPD. Guardians of Angels is a penetrati
- Author: Bultema, James a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0997425148
- Language: English
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Prayers & Presidents – Inspiring Faith from Leaders of the Past
$25.00 Add to cart“Went to church and fasted all day.”-GEORGE WASHINGTON, Diary Entry, June 1, 1774, day British blockaded Boston’s harbor From George Washington’s orders for troops to attend divine services, to Abraha… [more below]
- Author: Federer, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0982710119
- Language: English
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Acres of Aspiration: The All-Black Towns of Oklahoma
$22.95 Add to cartBeulah Land. Paradise. Shangri-la. Oklahoma seemed to be all of these in the hostile, racist, post-Civil War South. Seeking both refuge and respect, pioneers such as Edward P. McCabe championed the id… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Hannibal B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: April 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0978915038
- Language: English
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Roadside History of Arizona
$24.00 Add to cartJoin Marshall Trimble, state historian, storyteller, and native son, on the highways and back roads of Arizona, where a Grand Canyon’s worth of facts and stories add up to a portrait of a state. Along… [more below]
- Series: Roadside History (Paperback)
- Author: Trimble, Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 489
- Publish Date: June 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0878424717
- Language: English
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Swedes in Minnesota
$17.95 Add to cartA concise history of Swedes in Minnesota and the enormous influence that they have had on our state’s politics, history, and culture.
No ethnic group is so identified with a single state as the Swedes- Series: People of Minnesota
- Author: Gillespie Lewis, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0873514785
- Language: English
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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin: Nature’s Army at Work
$22.95 Read moreBetween 1933 and 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps, a popular New Deal relief program, was at work across America. During the Great Depression, young men lived in rustic CCC camps planting trees,
- Author: Apps, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 19, 2019
- ISBN10: 0870209043
- Language: English
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The Pirates of Colonial North Carolina
$10.00 Add to cartOriginally published in 1960, this paperback is the most popular title ever published by the Historical Publications Section and has never gone out of print. It contains a separate chapter about Black… [more below]
- Author: Rankin, Hugh F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: January 01 1960
- ISBN10: 0865263310
- Language: English
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To Die Game: The Story of the Lowry Band, Indian Guerillas of Reconstruction
$19.95 Add to cartDuring the Civil War many young Lumbee Indians of North Carolina hid in the swamps to avoid conscription into Confederate labor battalions and carried on a running guerilla war. To Die Game is the sto… [more below]
- Series: Iroquois and Their Neighbors
- Author: Evans, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0815603592
- Language: English
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Forgotten People: Cane River’s Creoles of Color (Revised)
$29.95 Add to cartOut of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their plantations eventually encompassed 18,000 fertile acr
- Series: Library of Southern Civilization
- Author: Mills, Gary B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 13, 2013
- ISBN10: 0807137138
- Language: English
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Decent, Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes
$24.95 Add to cartThe deadliest campaign of vigilante justice in American history erupted in the Rocky Mountains during the Civil War when a private army hanged twenty-one troublemakers. Hailed as great heroes at the t
- Author: Allen, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: March 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0806140380
- Language: English
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The Five Civilized Tribes: Volume 8
$26.95 Add to cartSide by side with the westward drift of white Americans in the 1830’s was the forced migration of the Five Civilized Tribes from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Both groups were deployed a
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #8
- Author: Foreman, Grant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: March 15 1971
- ISBN10: 0806109238
- Language: English
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The House the Rockefellers Built: A Tale of Money, Taste, and Power in Twentieth-Century America
$25.99 Add to cartThe Dalzells . . . do an astonishing job of placing Kykuit in historical context while weaving the larger-than-life Rockefeller personalities into its very walls and hallways.–Los Angeles Times
One h- Series: John MacRae Books
- Author: Dalzell, Robert F., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0805088571
- Language: English
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Texas Rangers: Volume I: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900
$22.99 Add to cartTexas writer/historian Mike Cox explores the inception and rise of the famed Texas Rangers.
Starting in 1821 with just a handful of men, the Rangers’ first purpose was to keep settlers safe from the- Author: Cox, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 076531892X
- Language: English
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Lewis & Clark for Dummies
$19.99 Add to cartThe Lewis and Clark expedition was the greatest camping trip in history. It was one of those irresistible American adventures that many people dream of living. This book shares the delightful details … [more below]
- Series: For Dummies
- Author: Meadows, Sammye J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 26 2003
- ISBN10: 076452545X
- Language: English
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Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DC
$18.95 Add to cartNow in Paperback!
Empire of Mud unearths and untangles the roots of our capital’s beginnings and explores how the city was tainted from the start, its turbulent history setting a precedent for the dis- Author: Dickey, J. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0762787910
- Language: English
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Boon Island: A True Story Of Mutiny, Shipwreck, And Cannibalism
$16.95 Add to cartA harrowing true tale of fraud, mutiny, shipwreck, and cannibalism on the desolate rock known as Boon Island.
- Author: Erickson, Stephen A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0762777524
- Language: English
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Blood Feud: The Hatfields And The Mccoys: The Epic Story Of Murder And Vengeance
$26.83 Add to cartAmerica’s most notorious family feud began in 1865 with the murder of a Union McCoy soldier by a Confederate Hatfield relative of “Devil Anse” Hatfield. More than a decade later, Ranel McCoy accused a… [more below]
- Author: Alther, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0762782250
- Language: English
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The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate’s Deep Throat
$17.99 Add to cartThe mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972 remained hidden for thirty-three years. In The Secret Man, Woodward tells the story of his lon… [more below]
- Author: Woodward, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0743287169
- Language: English
